Toe-weight



(No Model.)

J. A. NEWSOME.

TOE WEIGHT. No. 451,511. Patented May 5,1891.

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JAMES A. NEwsoME, on ROSWELL, COLORADO.

TOE-WEIGHT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,511, dated May 5, 1891.

Application filed June 2, 1890. Serial No. 353,938, (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES A. Nnwsoinn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Roswell, in the county of El Paso and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful Toe-Veight, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to toe-weights for horses; and the objects of the invention are to provide a weight adapted to regulate the movements of trotting and pacing horses, whereby their speed may be increased, said weight being so constructed as to prevent any accidental cutting caused by its interfering.

With the above objects in view the invention consists in certain features of construction hereinafter specified, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view, my invention being applied to a hoof and shoe. Fig. 2 is a similar view detached from the hoof. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section. Fig. et is a transverse horizontal section.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In practicing my invention I form a weightsupporting standard from a T-shaped blank, the stem portion subsequently forming the standard 1 and the T-portion being laterally bent near its ends to form rearwardly-extending arms 2, the extremities of which terminate in depending lugs 3. The disposition of the arms and that of the stem is such that the latter is rearwardly inclined to partake of the general contour of the hoof. The stem is T-shaped in cross-section, or, in other words, is provided at its opposite sides with vertical ribs 4531110. upon its front face at about its center with a countersunk recess 5.

6 designates the weight, which is of the usual shape exteriorly, the same being rounded at top and bottom to obviate sharp edges and corners. The rear face of the weight is provided with avertical recess7 of asiZe adapted to receive the T-shaped stem of the standard, and the opposite walls of the recess are grooved, as at 7*, to receive the ribs of the stem. The weight is provided with a transverse opening 8, communicating with the recess, said opening being provided near its front portion with a shoulder 9 by reason of a reduction in the bore of the recess. A pin 10 is mounted in the opening and terminates at its inner end in an enlarged head 11, adapted to fit the countersunk recess of the stem of the standard and the largest portion of the opening in the weight. Between the head of the pin and the shoulder of the Opening there is coiled about said pin a spring 12, which normally projects the inner end of the pin inwardly, so that the same is adapted to take into the countersunk recess whenever brought into register therewith. The outer end of the pin projects slightly beyond the exterior surfaceof the Weight, and is provided with a head 13, under which an Ordinary pair of pinchers or a claw-bar may be introduced for the purpose of withdrawing the pin from the countersunk recess of the stem of the standard and against the tension of the spring.

14 designates a shoe, the upper front surface of which is swaged, as at opposite sides of the center of the shoe, and near the rear ends of the swaged portions are formed openings 15. The arms 2 of the standard rest in the swaged portions of the shoe, and the lugs of said arms take into the openings formed in said portions. The shoe is now applied to the hoof of the horse in the usual manner and the weight introduced over the stem of the standard and is locked thereupon in the manner before described. It will thus be apparent that weights of various sizes may be substituted for each other, so as to regulate the movements of the horse to the desired extent.

It will be observed that I do not employ any screws or other devices for connecting the standard with the shoe, and avoid all cutting away of the horses hoof for the insertion of the standard. Furthermore,the weight is out of any position calculated to interfere with the horse in his movements, and no cutting or bruising can occur.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- The combination, with the horseshoe, the upper face of which at its front is provided with a pair of rearwardly-disposed shallow recesses terminating in front of the rear or inner edge of the shoe near its centerin openings, of the standard provided at its lowerend with a lateral base extending at each side of the standard and rearwardly bent near its ends to form supporting-arms fitting the shallow recesses of the shoe and terminating in In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aifixed my signature in presence of two witnesses;

JAMES A. NEVVSOME.

depending lugs fitting the openings at the Witnesses: ends of the recesses, and the weight mounted CHAS. L. TUTT, on the standard, substantially as specified. D. G. CANTNER. 

